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Soon after its debut at the time of the Civil War, the Gatling gun changed the nature of warfare and the course of world history. Discharging 200 shots per minute with alarming accuracy, the world's first machine gun became vitally important to protecting and expanding America's overseas interests.

Of all the generals in the ancient world, none matches the accomplishments of Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Hannibal of Carthage. Whatever their backgrounds, these rulers showed that the right military commander at the right time in history can destroy an empire, change civilization, and alter the course of world history forever.

As award-winning biographer and science writer Graham Farmelo describes in Churchill's Bomb, the British set out to investigate the possibility of building nuclear weapons before their American colleagues. But when scientists in Britain first discovered a way to build an atomic bomb, Prime Minister Winston Churchill did not make the most of his country's lead and was slow to realize the bomb's strategic implications.

While the bow was used throughout ancient times and the Middle Ages, on mainland Europe it was mostly replaced by the crossbow in the early 13th century. But that would change with the introduction of the longbow; a more powerful weapon than the traditional hunting bows. The original longbowmen were Welshmen recruited by King Edward I of England after he conquered Wales, and the weapon got its name from the fact that it was almost as tall as the man using it. This gave it a longer draw and therefore more force as longbows were generally made of yew, a strong and pliable wood.

This is the story of a British deterrent. Much has been written about the V-bombers—the Valiant, Victor, and Vulcan—but virtually nothing has been said about their strategic nuclear strike role. How would Britain's small force of subsonic bombers have retaliated following a Soviet attack, and would they have succeeded? This book is the product of seven years of research by Dr. Tony Redding.

Hiroshima was one of the great tragedies of WWII. But out of the devastation of the first atomic bomb, some survivors emerged, 25 courageous Japanese women who became part of a remarkable humanitarian epic. Victims of the atomic blast that ushered in the Nuclear Age, these women were brought to the United States in 1955, where they underwent reconstructive surgery to repair the ravages of the bomb. Schoolgirls when the bomb destroyed their futures, they began to remake their lives and re-create themselves. This is the compassionate, often bittersweet chronicle of the Hiroshima Maidens.

My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapons pose. In a remarkable career, Perry has dealt firsthand with the changing nuclear threat.

Decades after the war, one truth refuses to stay buried: The man they left behind never died. Skeeter Spidel has spent years trying to outrun the ghosts of Vietnam—but one ghost refuses to let go. When shocking evidence surfaces that Nate, listed KIA decades ago, may still be alive in a hidden prison deep in Laos, Skeeter and Arlon Spaeth make a choice no one expects: They’re going back. No orders. No backup. No permission. Just loyalty, guilt, and the unbreakable promise Marines make to each other. What they find is worse than any memory: a secret prison network, Russian operatives ...

In We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age, Laurie Calhoun examines the 21st-century practice of remote-control killing of suspects located in third-world countries and challenges listeners to reflect upon the long-range implications - moral, political, psychological, and cultural - of this new form of “warfare”. Through the use of provocative analogies and examples, We Kill Because We Can clarifies and criticizes targeted killing as incompatible with the values and principles of modern Western democratic societies.

Based on actual events spanning forty years, this story is about the relentless struggle of a family’s search for freedom, the Great Seven Fidel Castro’s inner circle, and an epic adventure driven by a passionate love relationship set in pre- and post-Revolutionary Cuba. The love story is the main impetus of this chronicle. Pepe, the only survivor of the inner circle to escape several assassination attempts, is forced to leave his family and his fiancée (Alicia) in Cuba. Alicia, who is carrying his unborn child, conceals her pregnancy to ensure Pepe’s immediate departure to safety.

When Reagan and Gorbachev sat down in Reykjavik in 1986, George Shultz said that it was “the poker game with the highest stakes ever played”. It was the last time the world had a chance to do away entirely with nuclear weapons. This is the behind-the-scenes story of this remarkable summit conference. An Impossible Dream is the first exploration of recently available archives of both sides - top-secret archives of the Kremlin, the personal papers of Gorbachev, as well as Reagan's archives.

A fireball over the Arctic. A missing hydrogen bomb. A Cold War program exposed in a single, shattering night. Before dawn on January 21, 1968, a U.S. Air Force B-52G code-named HOBO 28 streaked across the polar sky carrying four thermonuclear weapons. Its mission—Operation Chrome Dome—kept nuclear-armed bombers in the air 24/7, ready to strike Moscow in minutes. But when a cockpit fire roared through the bomber at 41,000 feet, the crew faced an unthinkable choice: burn alive or bail out into −60 °F darkness. Minutes later a mushroom-shaped blast lit North Star Bay, scattering ...

De Brooklyn a Moscú «con extremo prejuicio». Es una mezcla entre John Wick y «Promesas del Este», y se aplican las reglas de Delta Force. La mafia rusa le robó su contrato con el gobierno, voló su oficina y disparó contra su casa. Ya es suficiente. Bob Burke lleva la lucha a Moscú, al Kremlin, y le da una paliza al nuevo zar en el libro n.º 4 de la serie de acción y suspense de Bob Burke. ¡4,6 estrellas en 712 reseñas de US Amazon y 4.6 Goodreads! ¡Una nueva y emocionante traducción! ¿Te gustan las buenas series de libros de acción y aventuras? ¿Te devoras los libros de ...

War. World War. This is the story of the first world war, the great war. The then-biggest war to shake the globe. It is the story of the leaders, technological advancements, politics, and people that fueled a four-year conflict between countries and empires from every continent on the globe. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand sparked an ultimatum that would ignite the war. Nearly 11 million soldiers and seven million civilian lives were lost on both sides of the battle.

A Boydian Approach to Mastering Unconventional Warfare" is a seminal work that delves deeply into the strategic principles of John Boyd, a legendary military strategist, and applies them to the complex realm of unconventional warfare. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of Boyd's key concepts, most notably the OODA Loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act), and explores their application in the context of irregular and asymmetric conflicts that dominate the modern geopolitical landscape. The author meticulously explores how Boyd's principles of adaptability, speed, and fluidity in ...

BODY SNATCHING: The Shocking Untold True Story of Project Sunshine A Cold-War Secret Buried in Bones What if the greatest nuclear cover-up wasn't an explosion - but a grave robbery? Body Snatching exposes Project Sunshine, the US-led program that harvested more than 1,500 corpses and ultimately catalogued 21,830 bone specimens - one-third taken from infants - to map radioactive fallout inside the human body. From morgues in Chicago to funeral homes in Australia, agents carved limbs from the dead, stitched the bodies to disguise the theft, and air-shipped the samples on dry ice to secret ...

This latest installment in the Indomitable Patriot series takes the reader into the realm of WWII Naval and Marine aviation in the Pacific theater, in the 1944-45 era. Revel in the stateside development of procedures, extending our kill ratio from 2:1 to 15:1. What is the contribution real-life character John Boyd makes and how will it influence dogfights against the enemy? Tighten your belts during the air-to-air combat over Truk Atoll, the Battle of the Philippine Sea and Okinawa. What happens when Pack, seeking a hot date, meets timid and demure Julie Packard? The OSS plays an important ...

Aunque joven, la Academia de las Ciencias y las Artes Militares presenta con este su sexto volumen de Anales referido al curso académico 2024-25. Es la publicación periódica con la que se recogen un amplio grupo de trabajos sobre «lo militar». De esta forma se persigue cumplir los objetivos que nuestra institución se impuso al comenzar su andadura, especialmente el relativo al fortalecimiento de la cultu-ra militar en el ámbito de la sociedad española. Cultura, la militar, que abarca tanto los saberes científicos y humanísticos que atesoran, emplean y desarrollan, conforme avanza ...

La idea primigenia de elaborar este libro surge con motivo del fallecimiento prematuro del militar, escritor, académico, matemático y analista Andrés González Martín, miembro de la Sección de Pensamiento, Legislación y Moral Militar de esta Academia. Al observar su legado escrito nos encontramos con una mente humanista construida con la solidez de la matemática. Su capacidad de prospectiva, de desarrollo lógico y despliegue de sus ideas, fruto de tal convergencia, es destacable, como atestiguan su obra escrita y su discurso público. Por ello, los autores, sus amigos, han querido ...

The purpose of this book is to get the solo beginner or newbie if you will, him or her up to speed with the most fundamental military or law enforcement techniques and ready for a fight in the shortest possible time frame! The techniques used in this book are tried and tested and has been used for decades by military and law enforcement personnel from around the world. Whether the reader is a concerned citizen, war correspondent, an NGO in a conflict zone, a prepper prepping for anarchy and global conflict, or you just want to be able to defend yourself from armed assailants, or a citizen ...